3 October 2022
This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and leadership, with new digests from Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth, TK Kader, and EO. Highlights include Retention is almost always the biggest lever — and hardest to move. Your personal strategy directly determines how well your business performs
Showing 25 digests for 3 October 2022.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Five ways to build your tolerance for risk
Masters of Scale
October 4, 2022
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Business models
5
Understand risk as a spectrum, not binary choice; use data to reduce uncertainty.
Commit fully to chosen bets once assessed; half measures kill startups.
Align your team and ground decisions in principles to unlock collective risk capacity.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Jason Calacanis on Startup Ecosystems and Founder Wisdom
Acquired
October 4, 2022
Founder interviews
9
Fundraising & VC
6
Resilience & grit
5
Angel investing evolved from Silicon Alley networks into a accessible asset class
Founders must balance product excellence with strategic timing and market dynamics
Money is infrastructure, not the destination—focus on building durable value
How to measure market size and digital market share
Semrush
October 4, 2022
Market research
9
Competitive analysis
8
Niche selection
5
TAM and SAM reveal growth potential; SOM is just your starting point
A 10% market share can mean leadership or mediocrity — context decides
Growth quadrant shows whether competitors are rising threats or fading giants
The 5PM framework for evaluating early-stage SaaS ideas
Startups For the Rest of Us
October 4, 2022
Niche selection
9
Customer discovery
7
MVP & prototyping
6
Pitch the problem first — your idea is just one possible solution.
Six criteria ranked by importance, from problem urgency to build cost.
Two live idea walkthroughs reveal what makes one clearly stronger.
Business operating systems
YouTube
How The Rag Company used EOS to scale fast and filter opportunities
EOS Worldwide
October 4, 2022
Business operating systems
9
Delegation
6
Why a visionary's biggest threat is their own next great idea
Trusting the integrator as tiebreaker is the hardest leadership shift
How a weekly same-page meeting replaced reactive, ad-hoc decision-making
Prospecting & outreach
YouTube
Five reasons your online course isn't selling
Sunny Lenarduzzi
October 4, 2022
Prospecting & outreach
9
Niche selection
8
Copywriting
6
People pay for transformation, not information or content volume.
Skipping audience validation is the fastest way to kill your launch.
Creating a course and actively selling it are completely different jobs.
Conversion rate optimisation
YouTube
How to reduce button friction and increase click-through rates
Joanna Wiebe
October 4, 2022
Conversion rate optimisation
10
Copywriting
7
A single color change on one button drove a 95% CTR lift.
Four pricing options kills conversions — three triggers the Goldilocks decision.
Sticky sign-up bar lifted sign-ups 164% by removing button-hunt friction.
Work-life balance
Podcast
Sustaining high performance through stress management and intentional rest
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
October 3, 2022
Work-life balance
9
Resilience & grit
7
Burnout stems from misalignment with purpose, not just overwork or stress alone.
Stress is your resistance to reality—a choice you can change through perspective shifts.
Love the process and the climb itself, not the destination or outcome.
Automation & tools
YouTube
8 lesser-known developer tools worth adding to your stack
Rob Walling
October 3, 2022
See browser console errors without ever opening DevTools
One command exposes localhost to the internet for webhook testing
Hover any element on any site to instantly copy its CSS
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Walking, subtraction, and doing less to accomplish more
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
October 3, 2022
Productivity & habits
9
Processes & SOPs
6
Deep work & focus
5
Meeting doomsday: cancel all standing meetings and only reinstate what you miss
Outdoor walking beats treadmill desks for creative insight and focus
Trust, not motivation, is what gets a first novel written